As Seas Rise, Scientists Race to Save Coastal Marshes From Drowning

A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences. By Madeline Shaw

STONE HARBOR, N.J.—Against a lush carpet of marsh grasses, the five-and-a-half acre island of muddy sediment, shallow pools and tufts of straggly vegetation stood out like a sore thumb.